Atheel al-Nujaifi

Atheel al-Nujaifi was an Iraqi general and a former governor of Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. He spoke fluent English, and he gave an interview to Vice News in 2015; he stated that Iraq needed to encourage the people of Mosul to rise up against the Islamic State, and he recruited a 10,000-man Sunni militia to liberate Mosul.